“I think it’s the clearest message you could have possibly received from an anti-abortion state that they never meant the medical exemption to mean anything at all.” www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/o... - ThreadSky

polgreen.bsky.social • 446 days ago

“I think it’s the clearest message you could have possibly received from an anti-abortion state that they never meant the medical exemption to mean anything at all.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opinion/texas-abortion-ban.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FU0.OKb-.auhnmYrFr_ar&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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tarheel08.bsky.social•446 days ago

So, is Texas going to declare women who die in childbirth something like "Holy Mothers for the Sacred Unborn?" Texas is becoming a Christian theocracy in the spirit of the Puritans.

nevermet.bsky.social•446 days ago

The Puritans were ok with abortion until roughly the 4th month of a pregnancy or a bit later. Texas is literally worse than the Puritans.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/scarlet-letters-getting-the-history-of-abortion-and-contraception-right/

risefromtheashes.bsky.social•446 days ago

More like “failures”. 😒

critandcrit.bsky.social•446 days ago

"Necessary Sacrifices."

bethmcmullen.bsky.social•446 days ago

Texas unsafe for women of childbearing age.

spfhockeyfan.bsky.social•446 days ago

This should be bloody obvious to anyone with the sense God gave a goat, but here we are.

stinapag.bsky.social•446 days ago

The very worst interpretation of their intentions should always be applied and all attempts at giving them the benefit of the doubt should be immediately quashed.

88corbs.bsky.social•446 days ago

The exemptions are real and they do exist and they can be used, but only if you are a member the politically powered elite.

They exist solely as a loophole for when a daughter or a mistress has an inconvenient pregnancy.

delightw2023.bsky.social•446 days ago

And this is a surprise?

gn4rest.bsky.social•446 days ago

Paxton’s office is arguing the exact opposite in 2 cases. In one, the fetus has rights, in the other the fetus has no rights. Somebody put Paxton in prison already.

critandcrit.bsky.social•446 days ago

Shocked Pikachu Face.

garthoid.bsky.social•446 days ago

So this is a real life Gilead. The American Taliban.

critandcrit.bsky.social•446 days ago

Always have been.

derek.bsky.social•446 days ago

I feel like a lot of people have been saying this from the very beginning.

sfischell.bsky.social•446 days ago

It is heartbreaking to see Texas act like this. And disgusting.

derek.bsky.social•446 days ago

With any luck, Texas voters will remember this.

I’m not holding out a lot of hope on this, my well had run dry on hope in Texas, but I’d love to be wrong on this.

andlist.bsky.social•446 days ago

Texas is the stupid version of Gilead.

lindasea.bsky.social•446 days ago

word

chickenlady.bsky.social•446 days ago

It's not about abortion.
It's about sadism and fascism.
Misogyny or hatred towards LGBTQ or any other group is the entrance to fascism.
#MisogynyIsANationalSecurityMatter

dontinnovate.bsky.social•446 days ago

Never forget that abortion was a focus-group chosen issue to (cynically) bring white evangelicals and white Catholics into the Bircher project. The Birchers wanted to roll-back the new deal. The “Christians” wanted to undo civil rights. All hated liberals. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/

harfenist.bsky.social•439 days ago

This story is important and true, but I can’t stand how toothless it is referring to Jerry Falwell as “the firebrand fundamentalist preacher.” That man did so much harm using a religious pedestal, framing it like that seems insane.

dontinnovate.bsky.social•439 days ago

Firebrand is often a weasel word. Pundits/journalists often use it when describing truly terrifying and/or awful people instead of actually characterizing those people.

harfenist.bsky.social•439 days ago

For sure. I used to be an honest-to-god Journalist. It just amazes me that such words are thought carry the weight these ancient editors believe they conjure up in people. Trump is literally using Nazi rhetoric—you need to beat people over the head with some things, it seems.

michelesharik.bsky.social•446 days ago

Yep. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/02/18/the-biblical-view-thats-younger-than-the-happy-meal/

dontinnovate.bsky.social•446 days ago

Thanks for sharing!!!

andibabe.bsky.social•446 days ago

Correct

sameoldstory.co•446 days ago

I don’t know if this something that can be found out, but has anyone in Texas received an abortion under these laws?

ethicselizabeth.bsky.social•446 days ago

“Through September, Texas recorded only 34 abortion procedures performed in the state in 2023, according to state health statistics. In 2020, before the first of the state’s highly restrictive laws went into effect, there were more than 50,000.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/us/texas-abortion-kate-cox.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

sameoldstory.co•446 days ago

Thank you!

phillysky.bsky.social•446 days ago

Sad that this had to happen in order to expose this fact.

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